Interventions
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
13/11/2016 - 05/03/2017 Dominique Gonzales Foerster developed a soundtrack for the highly ingenious built-in audio system of the Sonneveld House. For this soundtrack, she makes use of the music once listened to by the Sonneveld family. These sounds, invisible yet very present, turn the house in a film set through which visitors move like actors. Read more
Eva Rothschild
12/06/2016 - 18/09/2016 Irish artist Eva Rothschild presents work that responds to Sonneveld House’s status as a museum and monument. She created a series of large, geometric sculptures that will be placed throughout the house alongside a number of smaller, more discreet pieces. The larger works create an alternative architecture that questions what is possible spatially within the house and highlights the sense of control that Rothschild sees as inherent within the domestic environment. Read more
Santiago Borja
13/02/2016 - 22/05/2016 Mexican artist and architect Santiago Borja built an observatory on the roof of the house, offering visitors a space for contemplation.With his work A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory, Borja points to the influence of Western esotericism on the architecture movement Dutch Functionalism. Read more
Petra Blaisse
01/02/2015 - 13/09/2015 Guest curator Petra Blaisse offers visitors a totally new experience of Sonneveld House with one ingenious intervention. With this intervention Inside Outside responds to the three key principles of Dutch Functionalism: light, air and space. The simple yet efficient insertion distorts the perspective of visitors, exposing ‘the other side’ of Sonneveld House and enhancing the relation between inside and outside. Read more
Richard Hutten
07/11/2013 - 11/05/2014 As guest curator, Richard Hutten respects the original interior while at the same time inserting examples of his own work or making almost invisible alterations to the interior. These add another layer to the existing situation, yet they are also connected to it. "Light or even banal in places, more philosophical and reflective elsewhere, the best interventions combine extremes.” Read more
